After New Year’s Day, the filming of The Richest Man in Xihong City started, and Lu Hao was extremely busy.
DreamWorks is currently taking a three-pronged approach.
"Double Food Diary" has been released.
"I Am No. 1" is about to be released.
"The Richest Man in Xihong City" will be released during the Spring Festival.
Basically, it can be seamlessly connected, and you won’t miss out on making money every month.
The box office of "Double Meals" began to decline three weeks after its release and is expected to eventually settle at around 400 million.
To be honest, this result is average.
It was within Lu Hao's estimation.
After all, this movie wins because of its novel subject matter, but it is niche after all, and its meaning is dark.
However, after the release of "I Am No. 1", it triggered a public opinion storm that Lu Hao himself could not have imagined.
The audience's response to this movie is extremely polarized.
They praised this movie to the sky.
The insults were extremely harsh.
Lu Hao had a hunch that this film would cause a lot of controversy, but he didn't expect the storm to come so quickly and so violently.
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"This is a pinnacle of domestic realistic cinema, vividly depicting the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. The collaboration between the three actors is also perfect. What's even more surprising is that when acting opposite the Best Actor Zhang Xiao and the Best Actress Su Ying, Lu Hao is not inferior at all. It's hard to imagine how much more his acting skills can be improved."
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"I admit I cried. As a small-time actor, a nobody at the bottom of the entertainment industry, I never thought someone would make a film like this. But after watching it, I decided to go home and stop being a small-time actor. Pursuing ideals won't make you great, and facing reality won't make you humble. We ordinary people are doing our best just to survive, so we should just keep our feet on the ground. Thank you, Director Lu, but I hate you."
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"Torture! It's torture throughout the whole movie! I just want to ask, Director Lu, have you run out of ideas? Besides making movies like this that trick the audience into tears, can you make anything else? Do you see this movie ticket? Swish! Tear it up! I'll never watch your movies again!"
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"You're the boss of a film company, and everything's going smoothly for you, yet you're so high and mighty, with such a sense of superiority, filming a story about a minor character. Who gave you the authority? Do we need you to film this?"
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"Rubbish director! The movie has problems, and the director has problems too!"
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"I've always liked Lu Hao's movies, but this one is just terrible. Just because he's famous, he's gotten carried away? Ugh!"
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The box office of "I Am Nobody" was pretty good, with 23 million on the first day, and then it slowly rose, breaking 30 million on the seventh day, and then fluctuated back and forth.
The scoring trend is also very stable, either five points or one point, with very few scores in the middle area.
But on Weibo, many people launched heavy attacks against Lu Hao.
Since coming to this world, this was the first time that Lu Hao experienced overwhelming scolding.
On the one hand, it’s because of the film itself.
After all, this movie, from project establishment to filming, was basically Lu Hao's self-entertainment, to satisfy his own feelings and fulfill a dream.
But on the other hand, there are people setting the pace.
The strong and rapid rise of DreamWorks, coupled with Lu Hao's lavish spending style, inevitably made his peers wary.
Large-scale online violence came with great force, like a flood that broke through a dam, and the popularity on Weibo lasted for a week.
There are many harsh words that are enough to drive anyone into autism.
Under every Weibo post of Lu Hao, fans and trolls quarreled fiercely and almost got out of control.
Facing this situation for the first time, Lu Hao’s mood... is really hard to describe.
For the first time, I felt that being a star is not that easy.
No matter how rich you are, or how hard you work on your work or movies, there will always be people who scold you, insult you, misinterpret you, or even curse you.
I really don't know where these people get so much violence from?
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"Director Lu, I have something to say to you. Whether you're an actor or a director, the audience is your bread and butter. Half of the money you earn is spent on being scolded. This kind of thing, no matter how good you are, has to go through, without exception. We privately call it Leaping Over the Dragon Gate."
“Some people have passed away and have since soared to higher heights, their paths shining brightly and their thoughts reaching far.”
"Some people can't get over it. When they're scolded, their hearts turn black. They think the audience is stupid and all they need is money."
"Some people were completely defeated and quit the entertainment industry in anger, becoming independent and self-sufficient."
Finding a break in filming, Chen Si approached Lu Hao and had a heart-to-heart talk with him.
He had personally experienced all these things.
The world is unpredictable and people's hearts are fickle.
Lu Hao smoked silently and nodded: "I know."
"That……"
Chen Si hesitated to speak.
Lu Hao glanced at him and smiled.
"It's really okay, come on, let's continue filming and ignore all this nonsense."
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It's indeed okay.
After all, being scolded won’t hurt you, so if someone scolds you, just fight back decisively.
For other artists, they may have to consider issues such as reputation and worry about the impact on their net worth, but Lu Hao does not need to, or rather, does not need it very much.
So Lu Hao posted a Weibo.
——"A lot of people have been scolding me recently, scolding me through the computer screen. Now, if you really want to scold me, please come and scold me in person. I'm staying at the Banshan Hotel in Hengdian now. Come and I'll cover the food and lodging. This is the first anti-fan meeting in the entertainment industry, right? The number of places is limited, so sign up as soon as possible."
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